Louis feederick laing



(No Model) L. P. LA'ING. PRINTE'R'S GALLEY.

PatentedJu'ly 7. 1896;

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS FREDERICK LAING, OF TORONTO, CANADA.

PRINTERS GALLEY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 563,495, dated July ,7,1896. Application filed August 10, 1895. Serial No. 558,904. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, Louis FREDERICK LAING, of the city of Toronto, inthe county of York, in the Province of Ontario, Canada, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Printers Galleys, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in printers galleys patented toSamuel E. Horne on the 18th day of March, 1890, under No. 423,559, andin which patent I hold an undivided one-quarter (i) interest, and theobject of the present invention is to simplify the construction of themechanism by which the sidestick is laterally moved; and it consists,essentially, of two pairs of obliquelyslotted plates, one pair beingreversely slotted to the other, and the outer plates of each pair beingsecurely held in the side bars ofthe galley above the plates secured inthe sidestick and the plates being operatively connected together bypins, which extend through the slots and have their heads underneath theplates attached to the sidestick, and their upper ends riveted in theoperating-bar, which is provided centrally with a moving pin, a furtherpin being provided extending upwardly from the bottom plate of thegalley, so as to abut preferably the outer ends of the pair of platesnear the closed end of the galley, as hereinafter more particularlyexplained.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a galley constructed in accordancewith my invention, showing the sidestick partially broken away toexhibit the construction. Fig. 2 is a crosssection through the galley online xoa'slotted plates, and connecting-pin and operating-bar.

In the drawings like letters of reference indicate corresponding partsin each figure.

A A are the side bars of the galley; A the closed end; B, the bottomplate, and O the sidestick.

down upon the bottom plate B of the galley.

g is a pin which extends through the operating-bar and has the bottomend resting on the bottom plate B of the galley. The lower extension ofthe pin 9 serves to stiifen the bar G, and thus prevent the ends of thebar from springing and thus forcing or disconnecting the riveted upperends of the pins F from it. The upper extension provides for themovement of the bar, and consequently the lateral movement of the platesE and sidestick O, to which they are attached.

It will be noticed that one end of the galley is entirely open. In orderto hold the sidestick from moving longitudinally, I provide a pin H,which is secured in the bottom plate 13 of the galley and extends up, soas to abut the plates D and E near the closed end A The pin H is ofcourse necessarily placed against the ends of the plates D and Efarthest away from the closed end A as shown.

- It will be seen from the simple form of galley which I describe thatthe sidestick will be held down by the outer slotted plates being abovethe plates secured in the sidestick, and will also be held rigidly bythe pins F with the heads f underneath the plate E. The upper ends ofthe plush are riveted, as-hereinbefore described, to the operatingbar,and consequently the plates and bar are held securely together, and thesidestick may, therefore, be moved laterally without any fear of beingthrown up or forced out of position atthe top.

In my form of galley it will be seen tha as the slotted plates areentirely above the bottom plate of the galley, and also as the end ofthe galley is open opposite the space in which the plates are placed,that any type which falls into this space may be readily removed bysimply tilting the galley and not as in former galleys having to turnthe galley upside down.

\Vhat I claim as my invention is?- r In a galley the combination withthe side bars, closed end and sidestick, of obliquelyslot-ted pairs ofplates, the upper one of each pair being secured in the side bar and theunder one secured in the sidestick the pins IO with heads at their endsextending through the reversely-formed slots in each pair of plates, theoperating-bar extending over the upper plates and having riveted in itthe upper ends of the connecting-pins and the pin H abutting the ends ofthe plates I) and r 5 E as and for the purpose specified.

LGUIS FREDERICK LAING. Vitnesses:

B. BYD, II. G. S. YOUNG.

